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What did you think about Tides of Numenara? I know there are many reviews out there, but your taste in games seems amazingly close to mine, including finding Sk

What did you think about Tides of Numenara? I know there are many reviews out there, but your taste in games seems amazingly close to mine, including finding Skyrim boring, so I'd love to hear your opinion. I've had the game sitting on my computer for a while but haven't started it yet.

bmurphy1976 8y ago
I was disappointed in that one. The concept was great and the world was interesting, but I found the characters to be bland and poorly developed. The Bloom was a monotonous slog. I wish you spent less time in the Bloom and more time in other parts of the game (or new areas). The combat was mediocre at best (nothing like Wasteland 2 or Divinity which are great). Finally, the bugs were terrible. I only finished the game a couple months ago, so it's had plenty of time for them to get fixed. I still ran into one game breaking bug where I had troll the forums to find out how to hand edit a game script to cause an event to trigger so that I could continue the main quest. That sucked, especially since I didn't do anything unusual. The flag just didn't get set and I was too far along in the game to go back to a previous save. It's the only game I've kickstarted. I did that because I knew there was no other way a game like this was going to be made at the time. I wanted it to exist. I'm still glad I did and glad I played through it, but it could have been much better. I'd put it at the lower end of my list: worth playing if you really like these kinds of games, otherwise pass.
- peferron 8y ago
  Thanks a lot. I guess I won't play it anytime soon—too many other great games to play in too little time. I may very well play through the "enhanced" original though... It's my favorite game of all time but I somehow only played it once more than 10 years ago.
  - bmurphy1976 8y ago
    The original is definitely the better game.

bmurphy1976 8y ago

I was disappointed in that one. The concept was great and the world was interesting, but I found the characters to be bland and poorly developed. The Bloom was a monotonous slog. I wish you spent less time in the Bloom and more time in other parts of the game (or new areas). The combat was mediocre at best (nothing like Wasteland 2 or Divinity which are great). Finally, the bugs were terrible. I only finished the game a couple months ago, so it's had plenty of time for them to get fixed. I still ran into one game breaking bug where I had troll the forums to find out how to hand edit a game script to cause an event to trigger so that I could continue the main quest. That sucked, especially since I didn't do anything unusual. The flag just didn't get set and I was too far along in the game to go back to a previous save. It's the only game I've kickstarted. I did that because I knew there was no other way a game like this was going to be made at the time. I wanted it to exist. I'm still glad I did and glad I played through it, but it could have been much better. I'd put it at the lower end of my list: worth playing if you really like these kinds of games, otherwise pass.

peferron 8y ago
Thanks a lot. I guess I won't play it anytime soon—too many other great games to play in too little time. I may very well play through the "enhanced" original though... It's my favorite game of all time but I somehow only played it once more than 10 years ago.
- bmurphy1976 8y ago
  The original is definitely the better game.